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The global pandemic had a major impact on the communications industry. Can it be salvaged and come out stronger?

Customer lifecycle management marketing company Zeta shares insights on the shifts in spending to digital and how marketers should approach the strategy process to adapt with this transition.

Communicate speaks with Alexander Elsas, Head of Marketing and Communications of Mercedes-Benz Cars Middle East, to learn more about their new initiative titled 'How To' and what it hopes to achieve.

To celebrate Saudi National Day, Saudi Aramco created an educational film  featuring the journey of the country through key historical milestones, using Twitter as the main channel to connect with its audience. The interactive film showcases the civilizational and developmental shifts witnessed by the Kingdom, one era after another. By detailing the Kingdom’s transformation, the film […]

By Imad Lahad There is no hiding from the fact that artificial intelligence (AI) is gradually changing our world, one industry at a time. Perhaps in no greater way than in government communications. Earlier this year in Dubai, we witnessed a moment that clearly captured this sentiment. International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Christine Lagarde was being […]

The riding giant Uber has announced earlier this week a layoff of third of its’ global marketing team.  Some of the members of the marketing team in the Middle East and North Africa has been affected. Overall around 400 employees has been let go worldwide. According to a sheet that went viral, the employees within […]

By Halley Theodore There’s a German word, schadenfreude, that describes one of our basest, yet most satisfying, emotions. Quite simply, schadenfreude is the pleasure we take in the misfortune of others. (Schaden = damage, and freude = joy). It has no real equivalent in English. Off-brand Muppets sang about the joys of schadenfreude in the musical […]

By Anthony Crupi Advertisers looking to shill for their products and services within the context of an Emmy Award-winning series are once again more or less out of luck, as premium cable and streaming platforms gobbled up most of this morning’s nominations. Of the dozens of scripted, reality and variety series acknowledged today by the […]

By Muzammil Hamza Although Virtual Reality rung it’s announcement bells first in 2012, the “reality” aspect was still fictitious to mainstream users in the MENA region until mid-2015. Initial applications of the technology, and sneak-peaks of the gadgets involved spurred a global race to identify the next major market opportunities, especially among tech-enthusiasts, who expected the […]

By Pedro Goncalves One of the strongest memories from my early days in advertising was the “EUREKA” moment, when for the first time, I was exposed to the biddable media concept. Words like Programmatic and RTB were still to come into use, but I felt strongly that whatever the official name, it will have a gigantic […]

1st Case Study: Emirates NBD Emirates NBD is a leading bank in the UAE. Part of their corporate marketing initiatives is to build and maintain brand affinity amongst the local UAE community. One way the bank does this is through tailored communications during cultural moments like Ramadan. Emirates NBD turned to Snapchat—an untapped medium and […]

Earlier this year, in May, Snap Inc. launched the Discover feature featuring local partners including Al Arabiya, Al Jazeera, Layalina.com, MBC, Sayidaty, Sky News Arabia, CNN and Zahrat Al Khaleej. Now, CNN has unveiled a new show exclusively for the platform called “The Update”. The daily show, which runs at 6 pm ET, provides a […]

CNN has officially launched its VR department called CNNVR, an immersive journalism unit and virtual reality platform within CNN Digital. The new department is led by Jason Farkas who is heading a dedicated team while training VR producers in more than a dozen bureaus around the world including New York, London, Hong Kong, San Francisco, […]

Saudi-based English daily Arab News has partnered with CNN to publish CNN anchor John Defterios’ columns and previewing exclusive reports and interviews from CNN’s “Marketplace Middle East” show in its print and online edition. The decision is part of the daily’s move to expand its business content. Defterios, CNNMoney emerging markets editor and anchor, is […]

Undeniably news and social media have developed an interconnected – if sometimes perilous – relationship. While certain platforms have encouraged citizen journalism, the real-time nature of others has changed the meaning of breaking news. Stemming from such social media platforms is a more personal service: messaging. While newsfeeds and timelines are inundated by brands almost […]

CNN has been named as the #1 international news channel in the Middle East, in terms of its reach to audiences in the region, a new Ipsos survey revealed.   The Ipsos Affluent Survey Middle East, which launched in Europe in 1995 has expanded to cover other regions including Africa, Asia Pacific, Latin America and […]

CNN International Commercial partners with Germany-based learning solutions provider Papagei.com to introduce a new English-language learning service, CNN Learn English. This partnership allows CNN International Commercial to expand the CNN brand as well as generate additional revenue streams in the English-language learning sector. The program, which will overlay CNN video content with Papagei.com’s translation and learning aids, aims to […]

CNN is launching Traders, a new feature strand that tells the stories of individuals who trade goods and services across borders. In Traders, CNN will cover the stories behind the global import and export markets by meeting characters who believe in their business to trade products and services overseas. In each report, CNN audiences will also gain […]

  Mention the three letters – CNN – to a shopper in a mall or a CEO in a boardroom, and people will instantly think of TV news. I may be relatively new to the company, but even with my 19 years’ experience in the industry, what strikes me about CNN is that we don’t just […]